Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [adv] [adj] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | While choreographers who wish to create a character and/or national ballet have an immense amount of material upon which to work , they must be very selective if they are to communicate the characteristic and/or purely nationalistic elements which will make a ballet unique . |
| 2 | Gulf war experience has led the army to believe they 'll be more efficient if they keep everything under one command . |
| 3 | Many people are reluctant to employ someone who has epilepsy and they might be very concerned if their daughter intended to marry such a person . |
| 4 | ‘ I think they 'd be very unhappy if we splashed out excessive money before settling our debts . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think they 'd be very unhappy if we splashed out excessive money before settling our debts . |
| 6 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 7 | Yeah , well an awful lot of this , this sort of waste disposal regulatory work and so on is , is very distantly removed from most consumers , and they would be rather surprised if they knew you were doing it . |
| 8 | Certain types of pulsating stars , known as Cepheids and R R Lyrae , have the same absolute brightness — which means they would be equally bright if seen from the same distance . |
| 9 | Most people around are totally unaware that the person is likely to be having such thoughts , who in turn feels they would be deeply shocked if they knew . |
| 10 | Middlesex was not allowed to build or even organise multilateral schools because they would be too large if ‘ appropriate ’ education was provided . |
| 11 | They would be very unhappy if that time was taken from them by points of order of this kind . |
| 12 | They would be less conspicuous if they walked . |
| 13 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 14 | They can be very confusing if you do n't know what it 's about . |
| 15 | I do n't think they can be extremely confident if there basing it on a forty percent market share . |
| 16 | It 's not always easy or straightforward , and I still have difficulty in dealing with such sweeping generalisations as : ‘ he 's a Down 's Syndrome — they can be very stubborn , ca n't they ? ’ ; ‘ mentally handicapped … they can be quite violent if they do n't get their own way ’ . |
| 17 | They have hunter 's jaws and when they suddenly expose a huge gape , they can be quite alarming if you think you are handling an ordinary , inoffensive worm . |